nickel

Described in the catalog as a “hanging, nine-lobed, single-layered continuous form,” made of a skein of finely looped copper and nickel wire, it resembles so many baskets hanging from a chain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

Mining companies want to scour the ocean's abyssal plains for polymetallic nodules laden with nickel, copper and cobalt.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

"Elevated concentrations of cadmium and nickel in freshwater, and cadmium and arsenic in soil, were largely confined to Deene Quarry and a former slag heap in Weldon," the group added.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Oh yes, that extra nickel is before taxes.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

With my nickel in my hand, I walk right past the pew where we were sitting and keep going, right out the door, down the block, around the corner to the candy store.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson

The overall energy of the trip and the relationships strengthened by shared experience are worth much more than the nickels and dimes you won’t miss in the long run.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

The chain bundled food with items like character buttons, wooden nickels, hand puppets and drinking glasses.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

He also thinks the government savings from not producing pennies will be offset by the need for more nickels, which are worth five cents but cost nearly 14 cents to make.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025

“We don’t take those wooden nickels anymore,” he said.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2025

Lana Lee dumped a pile of nickels into the cash register and wrote down a figure on a sheet of paper.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Marina thought there was inadequate medical oversight, and said the program "nickeled and dimed" her for additional services, like physicians' visits, that she thought would be included.

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2023

“I can’t think of a worse business – high fixed costs, commodity product, worsening service, alienated customers sick of being nickeled and dimed for every amenity.”

From Reuters ● Sep. 9, 2022

“It does seem people feel they are being nickeled and dimed on paperwork,” Mr. Brown said.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2017

Teams this time of year are good enough to survive being nickeled and dimed for a run every couple innings.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2017

The revolvers were of forty-eight calibre, and brightly nickeled.

From The Man from Jericho by Edwin Carlile Litsey

We sat on high stools at the bar while the barman shook the Martinis in a large nickelled shaker.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

There was suddenly a sharp click, a turn of the nickelled handle, and on mute hinges the safe-door opened.

From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives

Amber entered, his eyes quick, his right hand in his pocket and grateful for the cold caress of nickelled steel, his body poised lightly and tensely upon the balls of his feet—in a word, ready.

From The Bronze Bell by Louis Joseph Vance

A noise of light footsteps muffled by a rug, high heels tapping on uncovered floor, the scrape of a drawer pulled out: and she returned to give him a little nickelled electric torch.

From Alias the Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance

It was the bright nickelled handle-bar which had caught his eye.

From The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts by John Finnemore

“Sometimes it feels like the college is nickeling and diming you,” Kantrowitz said.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2016

Commercial practice in the matter of the composition of nickelling solutions appears to vary a good deal.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

The treatment in hot baths of alkali and cyanide is the method generally employed in American factories as a preliminary to the nickelling of small brass work for sewing machines, etc.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

One shining in the freshness of new nickelling; the other an old thing of battered tin, with faded gold letters.

From A Top-Floor Idyl by George Van Schaick